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Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) plans to form a cybersecurity-dedicated subcommittee if he is elected chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, Defense News reported Thursday. McCain said he wants to add a fresh cybersecurity bill to the Senate’s roster of top-priority legislation, Leo Shane III reports. The senator also highlighted …

A Senate appropriations subcommittee has approved a bill that provides the departments of Justice and Commerce as well as federal science organizations with a $51.2 billion combined budget for the next fiscal year, FCW reported Tuesday. Adam Mazmanian writes that legislation on those agencies’ FY 2015 budget allocations will undergo …

Since its inception in 2009, Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.) has served as chairman of the Senate’s contracting oversight panel. According to GovExec, that position could change hands after the election as industry observers and congressional sources told the publication Tom Carper (D-Del.) is a likely successor. McCaskill is in the …

Often overlooked, members of the acquisition workforce play an important role in handling government contracting as they serve as the first set of eyes to analyze and digest government contracts before anything is settled. As massive cutting of federal spending is the talk of Washington, Dan Gordon, administrator of the …